Spbiwg-skap toe



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARIANUS X. TSCHUS ,OF BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS.

SPRING-SNAP FOR BRIDLE-REINS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 24,677, dated July 5, 1859.

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MARIANUS X. TSCHUS, of Bloomington, in the county of McLean and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement, in Spring-Snaps tor Bridle-Rems and other fuljustable Portions of Leather Harness; and I do hereby declare that the following a full, clear, and exact descriptien ot the construction and operation ot the saine. reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure l is an ordinary spring snap;I` seen from the side, and Fig. Q my improved buckle-snap, seen from above and somewhat from one side, in perspective.

It is well known that snaps in ordinary use among harness-makers consist of a hook, of brass or other metal, with an adjusting spring under the point of the hook, which spring must be depressed before the hook can be unhitehed, and a ring or loop, which terminates the shank of the hook, into which the bridle, or other Strap to be hitched, may be sewed. (See Fig. l.) But I construct my improved snaps so that the shank of the hook terminates in a` buckle instead of merel)7 a ring or loop, thereby dispensing with the necessity of sewing the bridle or other strap, to the snap, the advantage of my combination of a snap and buckle in one being the facility with which such snaps may be adjusted to any required strap, without sewing.

I construct my buckle-snap by casting, or otherwise forming it so that it will all be one piece of metal, except the tongue of the buckle, for the purpose of giving strength and beauty to the whole.

I do not claim to have invented either a snap or a buckle; but A I claim- The combination of the two in one, in the manner described and for the purpose described.

M. X. TSCHUS.

Titnesses E. R. Ron, GEORGE BULL. 

